Aim for the heart on TF1: What’s new profiler series with Claire Keim and Lanick Guthrie worth?

Julia Scola, a brave and respected police captain, and Novak Lisica, a criminal lawyer with a devastating smile, loved each other against all odds when they were teenagers. But today they have not spoken to each other for twenty years. why What tragedy separated them? They built their lives far from each other, very far.

So when Novak leaves his prestigious firm to become a commissioner and join Julia in her brigade, fate takes over. Between past and present, Julia and Novak’s explorations explore childhood horrors, adult nightmares, and monsters aren’t always what you think.

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Watched 6 episodes out of 6.

To embody the two protagonists of Aim for the heart, TF1 and the production company Beaubourg Fiction called on two main faces of the channel, who are very popular with the general public. Claire Keim, a first-timer who needs no introduction, makes her first foray into the recurring detective series genre, and Julia discovers a nuanced new role at school that gradually sees all her realities fly to pieces. A proposal not too far from what he proposed to Infidel a few years ago.

Opposite him is Lanik Gautry, the male star of the Le Tueur du lac collection, who can also be seen in La Vengeance aux Eyes Clairs, Les Ombres Rouges or Bronx on Netflix, who lends his qualities to Novak Lisica, the other protagonist of this new series. Between thriller and drama.

The shocking and charming duo is completed by Noemi Chicheportiche (Comme des gosses), Zinedine Sualem (The Chefs), Vali Diam (Les Chamois), Nicolas Casale (Pride), Raphael Ferretti (Profiling), Juliette Plumecocque Mech (Fear of Lacquer), Elodie Hesme (The Sheriff) ), Fleur Geffrier (Le Châlet) and Robinson Stevenin (La Promesse).

Without forgetting Axel Naroditsky, I promise you, one of the revelations and Filipina de Fabri in the skin of Novak and Julia at the age of 18. Because many of the flashbacks reflect the six episodes of Aim for heart.

Thirteen years ago, Fanny Robert and Sophie Lebarbier initiated an important turning point in the history of French detective series with the creation of Profilage, which contributed greatly to the revolution of the genre, which until now was too planned and approached. Done on the other side of the Atlantic in terms of narrative or darkness (much of the research conducted by Odile Vuillimin and Philippe Bass, for example, nothing envies the glucose atmosphere possible in Criminal Minds).

After writing The Man I Condemned for M6, the two screenwriters return to TF1 with a new creation, once again in the world of thrillers they love so much. From the very first minutes of Aim for the heart, TF1’s project is clear: to manage to set up a new recurring detective series that could clearly be profiled. Also Alice Nevers and the research department, which was discontinued a few months ago after the channel’s heyday of fifteen to twenty years.

To make Heart’s Goal a winning formula, Fany Robert, Sophie LeBarbier, the producer and TF1 put all the odds in the ring with Claire Keim (recently crowned with the Menace sur Kermadec box set on France 2) and Lanique Gauthrie, who is always a crowd pleaser. will be found in the new fiction. And whose alchemy, already tested in Code Name: Rose in 2013, needs no further proof.

Story-wise, each episode features a different investigation that explores childhood trauma in one way or another, and the atmosphere that emerges from these cases is reminiscent of profiling. to the delight of the fans. Despite its “looping” aspect, Heart’s Purpose is not strictly speaking a procedural series, as the intimate lives of the characters, told in the background of each episode, represent a real common thread that viewers will struggle to understand. Find out if they don’t follow each chapter in the series in order.

This common theme is also told in the present – through the complicated reunion of Julia and Novak, cursed lovers who know each other by word of mouth, fall madly in love until they haven’t spoken to each other in over twenty years – than in the past. The supporting flashbacks take us back to the childhood and adolescence of this duo, if not the smooth and normal duo. He is destined to remain forever connected after meeting her on the school benches. Against all odds.

If Heart’s Purpose is a nice surprise overall, it’s primarily thanks to the complex relationship that unites Julia and Novak and its fragmented narrative that moves back and forth between eras in the manner of This Is. We (the writers’ inspiration, no doubt). The past, which is sometimes more interesting than the present and features an excellent young cast, feeds and sheds light on what Scola and Lisika experience in their adult lives and explorations. And finally, the whole series of salt.

Indeed, we have to admit that the “investigations of the week” are not the most exciting in this new detective. Despite the deliberate and supposed dark side, along with uncomfortable themes such as aliens or near-death experiences, the cases solved by Commissioner Lisica and Captain Scola lack audacity and originality in their execution. What Balthazar has been offering on TF1 for several seasons.

But it’s not that big of a deal, because Heart’s Purpose manages to grab us from the start with its central mystery: What happened to drive Julia and Novak apart, despite their love? What is Novak hiding? What tragedy changed everything in 1998? And what about Julia? Doesn’t she also have some deeply buried secrets she doesn’t want to reveal? Questions that are largely answered in the very successful finale, Apotheosis.

The series can also rely on perfect performances from Claire Keim and Lanick Gothrey, who are more mischievous and rough-and-tumble than usual. and the actors around them. Starting with Rafael Ferretti, excellent as Novak’s father, Willy Dia, who dazzles in a more dramatic register, and Noemi Ciceportiche, brilliant as Julia’s colleague and assistant, who brings a sense of humor to an ocean of pain and darkness. .

However, it remains to be seen if the series will be able to maintain the power of its red thread and explore the intimate wounds of its characters in the event of a season 2. Even if interesting leads are already named in the last seconds of the series. the first season.